I Weighed Myself Today...

I'm so close to leaving the 220's behind me!!!

I just hit 222 pounds today.

I usually try very hard NOT to weight myself on any day but shot day, but something was nudging me and nagging me to weigh myself.

I think the reason I was getting this nudge is that I have been “overeating”. Now some of you may not call it overeating. But when I am experiencing food noise and grazing like cattle graze, I call it overeating.

You see, I take compounded Tirzepatide. And if there is one thing I have noticed, and I’ve talked about that here before, it’s that I notice differences between compounding pharmacies. And I have even double-blinded myself on this, taking a shot blindfolded from a vial I did not choose and then guessing the pharmacy. And I am always 100% right about where it came from.

I don’t think this makes compounding pharmacy bad. As a matter of fact, compounding pharmacy or “little pharma” has been the giant warrior defeating the bullshit pricing of big pharma, and I am all for that. Keep going little pharma, we love you!

And I will also say this: the compounding pharmacy that I experience the most food noise from is one that lots of people swear by. And I think if it was the first one you started with, you may be accustomed to exactly how their version of Tirz is and even like it. But for me it is HELLA FOOD NOISE. And I graze.

But here is the important thing: Even though I am grazing and having food noise I’m not really eating obesity foods. So like, when I graze, it’s fresh fruit like strawberries with monkfruit sweetener. Lots of strawberries. It’s extra Ensure Max Proteins, it’s popcorn. A week ago I did eat one of my obesity foods, which I have not done in months. And a week ago I had dropped 2 pounds eating my obesity food that week.

But for the majority of the time that I experience food noise and overeating on this compounded pharmacy’s formulation, it’s food noise and overeating of the things I have described here. The calorie count on a daily basis? 1500 and I may top out at 2000 on the worst days. My typical calorie count on the compounded Tirz that doesn’t come with all this food noise is 900-1200.

And here we are. I am ready to wave goodbye to the 220’s. At this rate of overeating and losing weight, I should get there by next week. lol.

I’m having a lot of emotions about this today for some reason.

I think it is because I haven’t been at this weight since the early 2000s when I first started developing health problems and obesity.

Also….I am going to hit the mythical ONEderland sometime this summer, probably by August 1 if the loss continues like this. That is really going to do a number on my head. I haven’t been there since about 1999. 199 in 1999.

This time last year I weighed 280 pounds when I stopped weighing myself. At some point you give up and do not want to look at that number anymore. That was my highest weight that I know of and my rock bottom. But I am guessing that my weight may have been closer to 290 by the time I finally started GLP-1.

What I am learning right now is to stay calm about the food noise. Don’t let it disrupt my peace. It’s temporary. And it hasn’t stopped the weight from peeling off.